Comments | frenchani: It's time for a resurrection

frenchani

It's time for a resurrection

Apr 12, 2009 21:15

for Dollhouse and Terminator:The Sarah Connor Chronicles for it's likely that these tv shows won't get another season. Joss himself is quite pessimistic about a possible season 2 for Dollhouse and TSCC's final episode looked like a series finale.

It saddens me for I've come to like TSCC despite some stuff that bothers me, and the last two episodes ( Read more... )

ttscc, dollhouse

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harper47 April 13 2009, 00:27:10 UTC

I truly hate it when showrunners who know their show is probably going to be cancelled just leave the fans hanging on the slim hope it will sway the PTB. So that's why I loved the Terminator finale. This probably won't be renewed but it ended so magnificently. I'm so happy they did that. It worked on every level for me - all the call backs to the past (shoot out at the police station, the T1000) all those things just all come together beautifully. I will miss this terrific show but I won't be frustrated and angry coughRobThomascough about it.

I'm not sad about Dollhouse because I just truly don't like the casual way they treat people as sexual objects on this. It's rape no matter how they play with the concept of choice. These people didn't sign up to be used as sex objects I'm sure and I just find this squicky. I thought I wouldn't mind but I do so as much as I like Victor, I just can't enjoy this.

frenchani April 13 2009, 11:20:46 UTC

Yes it's good to have a a true ending and this finale provided one indeed.

I kinda like that Dollhouse doesn't shy away from the sexual side of the engagements. I think it's a good way to show that those people (the Dollhouse staff, the clients)are true predators, in spite of everything, despite all their good reasons and excuses, despite the fact that they aren't necessarily evil people-what they do is wrong. Also I think it's precisely the point of the show, the dolls were vulnerable women and men who didn't fully understand what they got themselves into when they signed up, who didn't want to see the reality, the slavery that would ensue, because they were running into some sort of fantasy escape.

I like how Joss explores human weaknesses here, and the writing can be brilliant.

harper47 April 13 2009, 11:58:34 UTC

I get that the sexual aspect doesn't bother a lot of people. It's just not something I want to watch.

stormwreath April 13 2009, 00:40:22 UTC

the fencing scene looked like an illustration by example of Echo's speech from the opening scene.

I couldn't appreciate the symbolism myself because I was just constantly cringing and saying "They should be wearing fencing masks! They should be wearing masks! They'll have an eye out!"

that sex scene that wasn't really a sex scene

On RPGNet there was some debate over whether that was the least sexy sex scene ever, or the most sexy vivisection scene ever...

the idea of breaking the myth of John Connor the Messiah with a future where his name meant nothing to nobodyAlthough this could still, theorietically, be where it begins... John Connor became the leader and inspiration of the Risistance when he helped Derek and Kyle escape from a labour camp, didn't he? Maybe that's about to happen now, only John is rather younger than we all suspected ( ... )

frenchani April 13 2009, 11:41:55 UTC

Although this could still, theorietically, be where it begins... John Connor became the leader and inspiration of the Risistance when he helped Derek and Kyle escape from a labour camp, didn't he? Maybe that's about to happen now, only John is rather younger than we all suspected...

I guess it could happen indeed, but this John is still a kid, much younger than we were told in the Terminator mythology, so basically they changed the future.

I didn't realise until thinking about it later that night, but the reason the character Summer played was petting the dog in the final scene was to prove she's human, not a Terminator - Allison not Cameron, in other words.It's funny because the clue struck me immediately and first I thought it was a bit feeble, making a point like that with a convenient dog petting! Later I realised that they could have kept the ambiguity, with a dogless scene but, even more than the audience getting she was actually Allison, John had to see that she was NOT his Cameron. After all he ran after John Henry because ( ... )